552 Mr. A. R. Wallace's Catalogtie 



13. Macronota eegia^ Fabricius. 



Macronota regia, Fab. Syst. EL ii. p. 159 ; Gory & 

 Perch. Mon. Get. p. 316, pi. 62, f. 3. 



M. fraterna, Westw. Trans. Ent. Soc. 2ncl ser. iii. 

 p. 71, pi. vii. f. 5 (Philippines). 



M. Forsteni, Voll. Mem. Ent. i. p. 24 (Celebes). 



M. venerea, Thorns. Arc. Ent. i. p. 284 (Gelebes) . 



M. apeJles, Thonis. Mus. Scient. p. 36 (Batchian) . 



Hah. — Batchian, Gilolo, Ternate, Morty Island, Kaioa, 

 Celebes, New Guinea, Mysol, Salwatty, Aru Islands 

 (Coll. Wall.) ; Philippine Islands (B. M.) . 



Var. malayana. Thorax more coarsely and less 

 closely punctured, stripes narrow and pale. 



Hah. — Borneo, Sumatra, Penang (Coll. Wall.) ; Java 

 (B.M.). 



My extensive series of specimens from all the above 

 localities shows that there is much variation in each 

 locality, and no permanent characters between specimens 

 from distinct localities, except in those from the western 

 islands, which can, however, only be considered a local 

 form. The Philippine form is not distinguishable from 

 some Moluccan specimens. 



14. Macronota vaeiegata, n. s, (PI. XII. fig. 7). 



Nigra, thorace tricarinato, interstitiis crusta rugosa 

 cinereo-fulva vestitis ; elytris sub-planis, nigro rubro 

 et cinereo variegatis ; subtus rude punctata, lateri- 

 bus cinereo-aureis. 



Black; clypeus a little emarginate, rugose punctate, with 

 an ashy crust, keeled behind between the eyes ; thorax 

 with elevated median and lateral ridges, the rest of the 

 surface covered with a rugose ashy crust ; scutellum ashy, 

 with a blackish median line ; elytra with an elevated 

 ridge from the shoulder to near the apex, and another in 

 continuation of the lateral thoracic ridge, but vanishing 

 about the middle of the elytra, yellowish-red, with three 

 black spots on each side, and a black strijDe from the arc 

 at the humeral angle; between the ridges and the black 

 spots are linear patches of the ashy rugose crust, and a 

 patch of the same at the apex between the two black 



